A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research: The Virtual Data Center

Altman, Micah; Andreev, Leonid; Diggory, Mark; King, Gary; Kiskis, Daniel L.; Kolster, Elizabeth; Krot, Michale; Verba, Sidney

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A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research: The Virtual Data Center

Social Science Computer Review, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 458-470, Winter 2001

13 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2008

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Micah Altman

Center for Research in Equitable and Open Scholarship, MIT

Mark Diggory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Virtual Data Center (VDC) software is an open-source, digital library system for quantitative data. We discuss what the software does, and how it provides an infrastructure for the management and dissemination of disturbed collections of quantitative data, and the replication of results derived from this data.

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Altman, Micah and Andreev, Leonid and Diggory, Mark and King, Gary and Kiskis, Daniel L. and Kolster, Elizabeth and Krot, Michale and Verba, Sidney, A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research: The Virtual Data Center. Social Science Computer Review, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 458-470, Winter 2001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1083709